³ And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel?

⁹ Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.

¹⁵ You have made the nation great, O Lord, you have made it great; glory is yours: you have made wide the limits of the land.

²⁸ A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.

¹⁴ May the Lord give you and your children still greater increase.

¹³ Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and for the towns of our God; and may the Lord do what seems good to him.

¹⁶ And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam has done and made Israel do.

²⁴ No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.

¹¹ May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!

⁹ For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they took from the children of Israel the desire to go into the land which the Lord had given them.

¹⁰ And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,

²¹ And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them?

¹⁹ Your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come to an end before me.